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Does Swearing Actually Help You Tolerate Pain? | MythBusters
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Adam and Jamie visited the Stanford University Pain Center to find the most scientifically rigorous way to test three pain tolerance myths at once, settled on an ice bath at one degree Celsius as their stimulus, recruited 25 men, 25 women, and 25 redheads from Twitter, and ran all five MythBusters through the same test themselves to find out whether women genuinely outlast men, whether redheads really are more sensitive than everyone else, and whether screaming a string of curse words into the room actually extends how long you can keep your hand in freezing water, which is the kind of question that produces a result so specific and so surprising that it genuinely changes the way you think about the next time you stub your toe.

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Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it.

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